NEW: Texas is subsidizing $10B worth of new fossil fuel plants, citing new demand caused by climate change & population growth. But in reality: The new demand is coming from supercomputers for AI + Crypto. Guess where the new plants will be placed: capitalbnews.org/crypto-mining-…

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Almost two hours into Hurricane Francine’s impact on New Orleans. Tens of thousands without power. Sewage pumps failing. 911 service issues. In addition to the expected flooding issues. This is a Category 1 storm (insert climate change reference)

Nearly 400,000 are without power in Louisiana after Francine slammed the state as a Category 2 hurricane. It has now weakened to a tropical depression. swiy.co/PIly

As I get older. I realized how evil white journalism is. It's crazy how they made an entire video about the food they have to eat for sensationalism, but no actual reason for how they got here in the first place and who is doing this to them.

My neighborhood is going on 18 hours without power bc of Francine, but I’m near one of the 10 ‘community lighthouses’ in NOLA — solar and battery packs are used to power these churches so they can serve as shelters during/after storms.

America’s rural South is paying the price for Europe’s energy as Black communities in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and the Carolinas get caked with dust and air pollution. America’s new tax credits for ‘clean energy’ will make it worse. NEW: capitalbnews.org/biomass-clean-…

Yes! In 2011 the worlds largest biomass facility, in Waycross GA, exploded. It’s directly next to a prison, jail, and youth detention facility. We got letters detailing how harrowing and sickening it was for those on the inside and nearby free communities

The nation's largest investment in combatting climate change is helping to grow the number of polluting wood pellet plants in Black neighborhoods. 45% of the nation’s plants are in the South, they’re more than twice as likely to be in Black communities. capitalbnews.org/biomass-clean-…

I'm sure I won't be invited to the Entergy NOLA Xmas party, but for me it's unacceptable that 41k still without power after a Cat 1 in the city and we've been told it would take the entire day to access... can we not access and restore simultaneously? Come on!

NEW -- Springfield City School District tells ABC News that they've evacuated two elementary schools: Perrin Woods and Snowhill Elementary. They're currently releasing those students to their parents.

Interesting map: Basically everyone is driving more today compared to pre-pandemic. Also, public transit investment works? California leads the nation in public transit spending.

Last year, we profiled how L.A.'s oil drilling ban would improve the lives of Black Angelenos (LA has the largest urban oil drilling network nationwide) But earlier this week, a county judge ruled the city's plan to phase out oil drilling is illegal capitalbnews.org/oil-drilling-b…

#OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan ripped through 16th Street Baptist Church killing four little girls. The tragedy marked the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham, Alabama following the federal order of Alabama school integration. #ANationsStory

Saints fans are literally having a parade outside of AT&T Stadium right now after beating Dallas

BREAKING: Eight people have been killed and 2,750 wounded — 200 of them critically — by exploding pagers across Lebanon, the country's health minister says. apnews.com/article/lebano…

The Black North Carolina sheriff handling Javion MaGee's case says the 21 y/0 couldn't have been lynched bc "there was not a knot in the rope." MaGee's family is calling for “truth” after the sheriff dismissed the possibility, Christina Carrega reports capitalbnews.org/javion-magee-n…

1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer. So you might think the biggest threat to your life is some random shooter or gang. But the one organized group that is most likely to shoot and kill you is the police, and it’s not even close.